Anthropologic Quotes & Sayings

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies. — Carol Ryrie Brink

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera

That aversives stop behavior, they don't start it; and that fear and pain produce completely unpredictable and usually highly undesirable side effects, including being both exciting and reinforcing to the punisher. I have — Karen Pryor

I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world. — Joel Edgerton

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street. — Liam Gillick

I don't know if it's a forever deal, a sheep farm in the middle of nowhere. But I want to try, for Harry's sake. And I love it all when you're here. It's like you made it new for me. You--you are my forever deal."
There it was again, that dangerous, beautiful word. In Gaelic, wilder and lovelier still. "A-chaoidh."
"Yes, forever, Nic. A-chaoidh. — Harper Fox

The greatest ride in my life was about to come up, a truck, with a flatboard at the back, with about six or seven boys sprawled out on it, and the drivers, two young blond farmers from Minnesota, were picking up every single soul they found on that road - the most smiling, cheerful couple of handsome bumpkins you could ever wish to see, both wearing cotton shirts and overalls, nothing else; both thick-wristed and earnest, with broad howareyou smiles for anybody and anything that came across their path. I ran up, said "Is there room?" They said, "Sure, hop on, 'sroom for everybody." I — Jack Kerouac

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my fee: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything. — Benjamin Carson